Constitution Quote by Joseph Befumo

“Anyone who writes a law that cannot be easily understood by an average citizen is not worthy of leadership. The Constitution, which was written…

— Ben Carson

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

— Joseph J. Ellis

“Or I remember in 1987, when there was a big hoopla about the bicentennial of the Constitution, the Boston Globe published one of my…

— Noam Chomsky

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one.

— Antonin Scalia

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out…

— George Bernard Shaw

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be…

— John Jay Hooker

“The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it.”

— Jacob F. Roecker

“One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.”

— George Orwell

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution…

— Mark David Ledbetter

“The United States of America is one of the most studied but least understood nations in the contemporary world.”

— Robert Singh

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

— James Monroe